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An Important Beginning

Author

Secundy, Marian Gray

Bibliographic Citation

Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1993 Summer; 4(2): 197-198.

Abstract

...In our attempts to educate and empower patients, we must continue
to be alert to obstacles and barriers to realizing the goals of shared
decision making for autonomous patients. As Perkins and his coauthors
[Perkins, H.S.; Supik, J.D.; Hazuda, H.P., "Autopsy decisions: the possibility
of conflicting cultural attitudes,"

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